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The Necessity for Quietude of the Vital Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There can be no permanent settlement of Peace in the mind
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  if the vital Nature has not also attained quiet and peace.
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  Many people take this as a reason to abandon active life
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  and involvement in society and the World At Large, yet this is
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  not a solution. The vital nature is very much
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  driven by the Guna of rajas which involves action passion
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  desire and can be highly ambitious or aggressive when it
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  is fully active. Abandonment of this.
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  Action would be allowing the Guna of Thomas.
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  Inertia Darkness indolence to become predominant.
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  What is required is not the rising of Thomas, but the
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  insertion of light and Harmony into the action of rajas.
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  In other words, the infusion of a supplicant element into the
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  rajasic force. It is therefore necessary to use
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  the quiet and peace that is entering into the Mind, along
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  with the separation of the witness Consciousness, from the
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  active nature to provide distance in the viewing of the
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  actions of the vital nature, to begin to influence the vital
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  nature. Toward one of harmonious
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  light-filled action rather than the impulsive often violent
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  motion of the unrefined Raja Basic nature.
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  The mother writes quote. Now one can quickly realize that
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  there is another quietude which is necessary and even very
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  urgently needed. This is the vital quietude that
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  is to say the absence of Desire only the vital when not
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  sufficiently developed. As soon as it is told to keep
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  quiet either goes to sleep or goes on strike.
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  It says uh, no nothing doing. I won't go any further.
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  If you don't give me the sustenance.
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  I need excitement. Enthusiasm, desire, even
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  passion. I prefer not to move and I won't
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  do anything any longer. So, there's the problem.
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  It becomes a little more delicate and perhaps even more
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  difficult. Still for Shirley to fall from
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  excitement into inertia, is very far from being a progress.
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  When was never mistake inertia where somnolent passivity for
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  calm and quote reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter for
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  growth of Consciousness First Steps in Foundation page, 76.